TCDD Monopoly Right is Abolished

Binali Yıldırım, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, announced that TCDD will abolish the monopoly rights on the railways next year. Explaining that the decision to open the railways to the private sector Minister Yıldırım, "after the new year will start legal regulation," he said.
Binali Yıldırım, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, made important statements about the monopoly of TCDD in the railways, which has caused controversy for a long time. Minister Yıldırım said, “We are removing the monopoly right of TCDD in railways. We will make the legal regulation after the New Year," he said. Yıldırım expressed the process and roadmap of the process with these words: “What we think about in railways is to make an arrangement that allows others to use the lines as well as TCDD, as new lines are built after changing the existing infrastructure. Currently, TCDD is in a monopoly position. In other words, no one other than TCDD can use the lines. However, the lines are currently available. What we do in airlines, we will do in railways. We will apply what we have done in air transportation. We have the security side, the control side. Anyone who wants can use the lines for money. Those who want can rent wagons, and those who have money can buy them.”

Cargo freight

Minister Yıldırım said, N For example, 1 km. As per this, the company will come, we will say, between Karabük and this place. We will determine the tariffs again, Tarif he said. After the project life before transporting the Minister Yıldırım said that the transport of passengers, the transport will be done later, he said.